But one of the biggest stories at the 2010 UTD Invitational would have to be the incredibly low number of draws (22%) at the tournament. Players were going all out each round to win. Both Darwin Yang and Steven Zierk were coming off very good tournaments and had high expectations for an IM norm (4.5 points) and a GM norm (6.0) respectively. It was not to be this tournament. The real tragedy was UT Dallas team member, IM Julio Sadorra, who finished ½ point short of his 3rd GM norm. I say tragedy, because in round 2 he lost by forfeit when his cell phone rang on the 7th move of his game against GM Alejandro Ramirez.